Marshall is aksing 2x cost while verdant is asking 10-15x cost. Marshall is offering several different roastings of the same tea from a local business. In other words four 25g samples for $10 each and one 50g sample for $20 inclusive of shipping costs. In other other words, at the going rate for such things. Verdant is using fancied up language and slight of hand to sell cheap pu at outrageous prices. There's orders of magnitude of difference here.

Slurp, Nice try at hemming Marshall up, but you are making yourself look like a fool. Best quit while you're only slightly behind.

Perhaps Slurp wanna be A "Verdant" tea vendor but have no clue how to? Hinting up Marshall for sourcing to try his luck

Marshall is aksing 2x cost while verdant is asking 10-15x cost. Marshall is offering several different roastings of the same tea from a local business. In other words four 25g samples for $10 each and one 50g sample for $20 inclusive of shipping costs. In other other words, at the going rate for such things. Verdant is using fancied up language and slight of hand to sell cheap pu at outrageous prices. There's orders of magnitude of difference here.

Slurp, Nice try at hemming Marshall up, but you are making yourself look like a fool. Best quit while you're only slightly behind.

Wow. What a tool. I, for one, quite appreciate M. taking his time and effort to put together this learning experience (for our benefit.)

I am sure if he applied the time necessary to other ends he would wind up earning more money.

BioHorn wrote:I, for one, quite appreciate M. taking his time and effort to put together this learning experience (for our benefit.)

I am sure if he applied the time necessary to other ends he would wind up earning more money.

+1000. I'm sure legions of MarshalN's readers agree- if there was a guy who tirelessly devotes his time to tea and generously shares his findings with the public, it's him. His blog goes beyond tea reviews and teaches us how to think critically about teas and vendors. I personally would pay subscription to read MarshalN's blog as I find the knowledge embedded therein more valuable to me than other forms of paid media and most of the teas I've been drinking.

shazam...wow. Sure are a lot of lemmings here on TC, following their false idols bloggers. electric oven roasted, rflmoa...go get me some tea master producers famous ones, and let me read *their* opinion of Marshal's tasting and see if they don't agree with my assessment...man, the herd mentality of ignorantee's is killing me

So pure is Marshal and this thread drift (how can you not have one when it's author is of such 'integrity', lol) ...that his own blog censors all that Marshall doesn't agree with...roflmao! Luv 2 c the lemming heard mentality on TC. No wonder they hypocritical huckster came here to spam the dirty laundry.>>>see her latest:http://teacloset.blogspot.com/2012/09/m ... sy-to.html?

Moving Non-Humorous Controversy to TeachatTo keep the tone of this blog congenial and focused on what I do love about tea, I thought I would start posting what I find egregious(and lacking a sufficient humorous angle) on teachat. When I noticed something newly suspicious on Verdant Tea about a 2006 Tiandiren Bulang being too prohibitively expensive to import and will be offered only through their special Pu-er Reserve project, I couldn't help but alert the public:

I completely stand by my assertion that his cake is no older than 2006 in comparison to my numerous dry-aged cakes from the same era. The said cake is neither old or good. It's clear if you want to patronize puerhshop.com, you have to work hard to sort out duds and still pay a Western vendor premium. The 2oz sample of this 7542 is $15.88 which can still eat up your precious tea funds just for trying. In 2006, I would have had to suck it up and keep on being a puerhshop customer because there were so few vendors who carried decent pu-erh at all. Seven years later, I'm happy I can just pass on puerhshop because there is no shortage of good competition from Asian vendors.

There will be no more posts regarding this vendor or crackdowns in general as I want to move onto more wholesome tea doings. Hopefully there will be a new sheriff in town to sort these types of things out. While I had great fun deconstructing the "scamdalous" pu-erh inventory of Verdant Tea, I need to concentrate on finding the vendors who are worth supporting. Thanks for all your support and input. Posted by hster at 12:42 PMLabels: fake, puerhshop

duplicitous hypocrite, blogger-mudslingers, should be sued, imho.

hster8:53 PM

You were better than any of us IIRC. Actually I was reading your teachat response to David Ducker and all I could think of is "Go go marshalN!"

Here's my greatly considered post which tea addict blocks from posting, on this thread drift, nonsensical luv fest for Marshal... he, like hster, of dubious integrity:

Could make it more interesting if you do single blind, I'll bet some will like the 'fake' oolong, choose it amongst their favorites . Also, include at least one Taiwanese grown/ handmade of same style. Almost a ***must***, would be (likewise all single blind) a true *charcoal-roasted* version.

At the local Wing Fung Hop or whatever it's called (always forget ) in Monterey Park, Calif, they sell as their 'premium' TGY, one that is dark brown in color, similar looking to your darkest (though photos are poorly lit) for around $60/lb , that which I don't really care for, Give similar dark color infusions, of a weird arse (not to my taste) carmel-malty like flavor that dominates. Perhaps I should send *you* a sample so you can see what is available here in the "West" at the mid-level tea shop, lol.

Tally the votes based on the criteria, examples above; then you get a more fully, true 'education'.

Since Marshall is heavy-handed on the censorship banner, I think Chip for once should clean up some of these threads and actually appear to be an unbiased moderator (which we all know how that goes, eh Chip)

*note*, I have never done business with the person/business that is the subject of this "Salem witch hunt" thread, I'm not going to be part of the 'No Joy, No Luck Club'.

wh&yel-apprentice wrote:Since Marshall is heavy-handed on the censorship banner, I think Chip for once should clean up some of these threads and actually appear to be an unbiased moderator (which we all know how that goes, eh Chip)

wh&yel-apprentice wrote:shazam...wow. Sure are a lot of lemmings here on TC, following their false idols bloggers.

MarshalN is not claiming to be some tea prophet or expert- just a guy who drinks a lot of tea and writes about it. I've found his posts to be more informative than those who do claim "expertise" and his posts more often than not are about fostering skeptical thinking.

It's your own loss if you haven't learned from MarshalN's blog and that speaks more about you than him.

As to the attacks on my posts- this is the free internet. Majority of my readers think such investigations are needed on such blatant cases. I do it as a public service to new drinkers.